In Czechoslovakia, for example, researchers have been able to study the relationship between the magnitude and location of seismic events and the extent of damage underground.
American counterterrorism officials have said that the extent of the terrorist underground in Britain is one of the most serious security threats confronting the United States.
And on the walls and crates are statistics by analysts who guess at the extent of this dark underground: 12 million to 27 million slaves now being held around the globe.
But that objective changed when, on July 17th, hours before a mediated ceasefire was to go into effect, thirteen Hamas militants came out of a tunnel into an open field outside an Israeli kibbutz, rattling the Israeli military, which had not understood the extent of Hamas's underground network.
The defining disasters of modern Japan — the subway sarin-gas attack, the Kobe earthquake, the recent tsunami — are, to an amazing extent, Murakami disasters: spasms of underground violence, deep unseen trauma that manifests itself as massive destruction to daily life on the surface.
To improve the running efficiency of this type of underground gas storage, the factors influencing, and the extent of, the oil rim should be studied before any alterations are undertaken.
It was shown that the maximal extent of the MAZ caused by an underground structure is reached approximately 20 years after construction.
But the lack of poor infrastructure for coal storage and inadequate treatment of underground mine water is polluting the surrounding soil to a large extent.
A key requirement for licensing of the construction of underground repositories for nuclear waste is the demonstrated capability to verify design assumptions involving the presence and extent of the excavation damage zone around tunnels, shafts, emplacement holes and caverns.
Hochheiser insisted that his client was primarily a businesswoman — that running an underground bank was the extent of her criminal activity.
